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  • By day, Land to Sea serves Asian-inspired drinks; in the evenings, it moonlights as a creative venue, hosting events such as mahjong nights and art workshops
  • The co-founders wanted to pay homage to their Hong Kong and northern China families through its design – think neon, Chinese newspapers and porcelain tea cups

Famous for his celebrity-packed chain of Chinese restaurants, 85-year-old Michael Chow talks about facing prejudice, and why he wants to be known as the world’s greatest living artist.

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Yuyu Kitamura, one of the stars of Netflix hit Dead Boy Detectives, talks about learning from her character, what she gained from growing up in Hong Kong, and being allowed to chase her dreams.

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Project funded by the Committee of 100 and The Asian American Foundation gathers incident submissions from victims amid high concern over harassment.

New versions of old recipes for pineapple buns and Asian crullers, his own recipe for durian cake – Christopher Tan explains what got him started on cookbook NerdBaker 2: Tales from the Yeast Indies.

Aussie actor Hoa Xuande is a rising star in Hollywood after landing the biggest role of his life in HBO-A24 series The Sympathizer, starring alongside Robert Downey Jr – so what do we know about him?

A California town notorious for a history of racism and exclusion now has one of the highest Asian populations in the US state. The Tu family, who moved to San Leandro in 1960, helped it happen.

Malaysian comedian Jason Leong, back in Hong Kong for a live show, talks to the Post about being ‘unhappy as a doctor’, quitting medicine for the mic, and where he gets his material from.

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Actor, director, playwright and musician Daniel York Loh talks about his latest play and how, despite a résumé that includes movie The Beach, he still loses parts for ‘not being Chinese enough’.

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Grace Wang Guixin talks about how she has wedded her Chinese heritage and US upbringing in her Grace Gui knitwear label – and added a focus on womanhood and sustainability.

Struggling US-China ties, a human rights shock and a student in big trouble: these are the highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents from April 2024.

Decision whether to take part in demonstrations fraught with concerns as ‘it is already precarious to be Chinese in the US in these times’, says one.

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From Italy to Japan, a growing number of chefs around the world are borrowing techniques, recipes and ingredients from Cantonese cuisine – but is it a threat to the food’s authenticity?

Hongkongers under the age of 50 will be able to continue applying for five-year graduate visas, while all other candidates must be no more than 35 years old.

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No surprise that Cheung and Trump are both fans of combat sport and WWE, and have been seen together at UFC fights in Vegas … now Cheung is part of Trump’s 2024 presidential election campaign team

From Drake and Kendrick Lamar to Quavo and Chris Brown, rappers’ diss tracks are exposing the links between them like never before – so who is Karrueche Tran, who’s been referenced recently?

What we know about the 22-year-old, who also starred in Hulu’s hit show Pen15, played Awkwafina’s brother in Marvel’s Shang-Chi – and even had a role as Bruce Lee

Nashville, Tennessee, famous for music, is making a name for itself among foodies. We try three of its best restaurants – Chauhan Ale and Masala House, XiaoBao, and Aubrey.

A testament to the Chinese love of clever wordplay, Chinese restaurants in Britain often have witty or pun-tastic Chinese names that are like encoded in-jokes for the diaspora.

Having fled to Hong Kong from Vietnam in the 1970s, Berlin-based chef The Duc Ngo has gone on to redefine Asian fusion cuisine in restaurants in Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany.

The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.

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‘By restricting housing based on Chinese domicile, Florida is unlawfully restricting housing for Chinese people,’ a lawyer for the plaintiffs contends.

Manhattan in New York isn’t traditionally known for Chinese soup dumplings but YouTube and TikTok are driving a xiaolongbao trend that sees more restaurants getting creative with the dim sum classic.

Having blazed a trail across China, chef Frank Xu left for Europe, where he gives guests at Switzerland’s only Michelin-star Chinese restaurant, Le Tsé Fung, an authentic taste of his homeland.

The US celebrity chef drew fire after his brand sent cease-and-desist letters to small Asian-American-run businesses selling spicy condiments with similar names.

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